Forerunner 945 Beta SW 3.08 is now available!

Working Fine for me

Add another issue:

It isn't counting steps anymore correctly. I thought maybe I was overreacting with the accuracy of steps (which has generally been excellent and accurate in comparison to their competitors that are doing similar things). But I just manually counted 1200 steps, and the watch counted 383.

I have done nothing to the step value on my end before or during this beta. Everything has gone haywire.

Intensity minutes are woefully underreporting, Active Calorie counts aren't even matching tracked High-intensity workout output (Example: 40 min program in tempo and above levels burning a reported 423 calories in the activity, active calories after the workout reporting 411 active calories, ignoring both the workout AND the near 6000 steps taken before the workout (which is are probably much than 6000). Rest calories are a mess too.

20 days into this Beta and no fixes. What is going on with support for this watch? With the 935, we were into the 5.0-6.0 range at this point in its lifespan. 

2goBeyond said:

What is going on with support for this watch?

Seeing that the 935 has a new beta today, hopefully we see one for the 945 shortly. 

You are right: Fenix 6 range is already in the 4.xx range of updates and has been out for only a few months. Polar updated their Vantage range with a lot of useful features yesterday (sleep score for instance). I now really regret selling my Vantage V for the FR945! Garmin, and especially the Forerunner range, is just lagging behind. Really disappointing.

Garmin just released a new beta for the 935. So hopefully we see a new one shortly. 

Well, when you check the 935 14.72 beta update notes you can see there’s nothing there that will change the current state the 945 is in: a fine sports watch, a useless all day tracking device (HR is way off sometimes) and feature wise miles behind the competition. Garmin needs to add features to their ecosystem/app soon if they want to stay competitive. For example: HR is only accurate during activity tracking, sleep tracking sucks, pulse ox is worthless, body battery is useless for recovery, stress score is too dependent on the lame HR tracking, etc. I really wish it would be different, but I’m seriously considering switching back to Polar. The FR945 is already dead it seems.

I would debate that the 935 was very good at all-day tracking and decent enough with sleep tracking. I would even go as far as to say the 945 also did these things correctly. This beta, though, is absurdly broken, and I don't get it. It's building off the already mature 935; you'd think they would have front-loaded all the well-tested coding and fixes over its over two year lifetime. I stand corrected. 

What I don't understand is why every other watch of theirs is getting prime attention over this. Every time I get an email from Garmin, it's for the Fenix 5, or the F5+, or the Fenix 6. Even the 935 is getting updates over this!

I still have my 935, and to be honest, when I have to charge my 945 (which is every other day now), I'm wearing the 935. I'm wearing both watches, which leads to me wondering why I bought the 945 in the first place?

Battery? Bad
Metrics? Not good
945 extra features? I don't use Pay, never set up music, and PulseOX is a massive drain for a metric that isn't all the important, and most of the internal sports tracking is neigh identical to the 935.

I don’t see how your battery can be that bad. Are you exaggerating at all? 

I get 11-12 days consistent with 3x per week gps. 

I wish I was, but at absolute max, I get 3 days before I'm around 3%. I lose approx 40% life in about 24hours with one recorded exercise, (strength training for example) no GPS of course, no pulseOX, no OHRM (I use a strap) and the rest of the day is just 24/7 tracking.

Honest question; what base features do you have enabled/disabled? Are you using any CIQ apps including watch faces? What internal things like the backlight do you have on/off? 

I ask this because everyone here that goes I get *X amount of days, usually has everything turned off.